Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast. We're back with another edition of a field test roundtable. If you've been tuning in, you've seen that we've got a trail bike field test going on and an EMTB field test. So now we're going to go over all the highs and the lows and the mediums of these bikes. I'm going to talk about our findings over the course of our testing and hopefully answer some of the questions that have come up. and just kind of get a little deeper behind the scenes kind of look.

So I've got Stefan Pelletier. course of our testing and hopefully answer some of the questions that have come up and just kind of

get a little deeper behind the scenes kind of look so i've got stephan pelletier darrow de julio and matt beer here with me were the ones that did the testing stephan and dario tested the EMtBs and matt and i and i tested the trail bikes and we all kind of rode all the bikes too but for the bulk of the time that's how it all sorted out.

I think we'll probably start.

We'll split this into two sections where we'll start with one of the categories and then go to the other category. Do you want to start with the trail bikes first? Yeah. We do that. Just kind of, yeah. So we had six different trail bikes, seven counting last year's winner, the Canyon Spectral CF.

We brought that one back by popular demand.

We just wanted to see how it would stack up and then brought six bikes that were new for this year.

Ranging in travel from 125 millimeters.

That's the salsa Blackthorn 125.

And that can go longer too.

We did do some converting on that because it has a link you can get,

make it have more travel.

And then the longest travel trail bike we had had 145 millimeters of travel,

and that's the Trek fuel EX.

And that one can also be converted into a bigger travel bike, too.

So we'll talk about that.

Is the polygon the same travel? The travel on the polygon is 140 millimeters. And that one has 160 mil fork. So right. Yeah, so kind of arranged the goal was to have them be trail bikes. But trail bikes is such a broad category that it could kind of be anything these days. But these ones, we wanted to go a little on the shorter side of things.

It didn't quite work out. We tried to get bikes that were close to the 130-milled travel bracket, but end up with some longer travel ones, but it was fun to compare them. Yeah. Yeah, they all fit into that, in a way. Yeah. Yeah, they all fit into that trail-y category. they're definitely not

indoor race bikes

and they're definitely not cross-country bikes

so somewhere in the middle there's

you know these Yeah. Yeah, they all fit into that trail-y category. They're definitely not indoor race bikes and they're definitely not cross-country bikes.

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